Best musical movie trivia of 1996

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Trivia: Antonio Banderas got the role of Che by submitting a self-made audition tape and then performing all the musical numbers in front of director Alan Parker at a dinner meet in Miami.

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame picture The Hunchback of Notre Dame trivia picture

Trivia: When Quasimodo is singing a few minutes into the film, he is standing above the town street where people are walking around, doing business. If you look closely to the lower right of the scene, you can see Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" reading a book in her blue dress, walking.

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Trivia: While Centipede is on the skeleton ship, he enters into a room where the Skeleton Captain is laying on a compass, and Centipede murmurs, "A Skelington?" This was probably a reference to a previous Tim Burton character, Jack Skelington in "The Nightmare Before Christmas". The fact that the Captain greatly resembles Jack supports this theory.

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Trivia: In this movie, Robin Williams (the voice of the Genie again) seems to spoof some of his real-life roles. I haven't seen all of them, but Mrs. Doubtfire is certainly included.

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Trivia: During the "Funky Towel" song, there is a shot of the medicine cabinet and one of the roaches is dancing on a box of boric acid. Boric acid kills roaches.

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